Today's fragment
Résonances
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
Today's fragment
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
What do I know? Michel painted himself. Without makeup. With humor. He invented the essay. And honesty.
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7 quotes
“Je ne peins pas l'être. Je peins le passage.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“I do not paint the being. I paint the passage.”
— Essais
“Parce que c'était lui ; parce que c'était moi.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Because it was he; because it was I.”
— Essais
“Qui a appris à mourir, il a désappris à servir.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“He who has learned to die has unlearned to serve.”
— Essais
“Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Everyone calls barbarism what is not their custom.”
— Essais
“La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Essais
“Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en répondant : 'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi'.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“If pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that it can only be expressed by answering: 'Because it was him, because it was me'.”
— Essais
“La plus grande chose du monde est de savoir être à soi.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Inconnu
“Vivre, c'est faire vivre l'absurde....”
“La vie, ça ne se refuse pas....”
“Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, c'est que j'ai eu l'impression de la mener....”
“Chaque jour est une vie, chaque vie est une aventure....”
